Area Police
Around fifty vehicles have been marked with what seems to be human blood in the Germany's city of Hanau in proximity to Frankfurt, as reported by police.
Vehicles, building surfaces and mailboxes were defaced, in some cases with swastikas, they reported in a statement.
Police say they were alerted late on Wednesday evening, when a resident noticed that a automobile in the Lamboy neighborhood of Hanau had been marked with a reddish-hued substance.
The liquid had been placed in the form of a Nazi symbol, they stated.
Police then found multiple other marked automobiles and residential walls in the surrounding area.
These symbols are banned in Germany under laws prohibiting the public exhibition of symbols from the Nazi era.
Law enforcement report early analysis show the substance was probably human bodily fluid.
"At present there remains no clue as to where it came from; officials are currently not cognizant of any injuries in association with the occurrence," they added.
City officials stated they were attempting "to resolve the case" and have appealed to the community for information.
A senior official stated the vandalism left him stunned and needed to be solved rapidly.
"This event hits the core of Hanau and revives the wounds of the extremist attack in 2020," he posted on online, referring to the death of nine individuals by a gunman aiming at people of immigrant origin in five years prior.
